The read
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 26m.
Synopsis
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Ratings
IMDb5.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes14%
Metacritic18/100
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
38 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter AskinDirector
- Douglas McGrathDirector
- Douglas McGrathWriter
- Peter AskinWriter
- David LawrenceOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Douglas McGrathAlan Quimp
- John TurturroCrocker Johnson
- Alan CummingGeneral Batista
- Sigourney WeaverDaisy Quimp
- Anthony LaPagliaFidel Castro
- Jeffrey JonesSenator Biggs
- Paul GuilfoyleOfficer Hickle
- Denis LearyOfficer Fry
- Ryan PhillippePetrov
- Terry BeaverMr. Judge
- Sean DuganSkull and Bones Waiter
- Grant WaldenOlder Man
Stills
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